Energy – Scotland the Great Fuel Swindle

Scotland could control and benefit from 96% of the UK’s oil production, but we don’t. Scotland could control and benefit from 63% of the UK’s natural gas production, but we don’t. Scotland could control and benefit from 25% of the UK’s renewable energy production, but we don’t. Scotland could control and benefit from 90% hydro power, but we don’t. Getting the picture!

Winter’s coming, the clocks are about to go back and there’s been a cold chill in the air. That’s normally just part of nature’s cycle. I’m one of those folks who happen to enjoy our seasons and for whom a perpetual summer sun has no allure.

This year though with fuel costs going through the roof, it’s not a matter of whether you share that view but whether you can keep warm, maintain dignity or even life itself. It’s not just whether you can heat or eat, but wash the kids’ clothes, keep the phone charged for work or even keep the dialysis machine. These aren’t luxuries but necessities. (Kenny MacAskill Alba MP)

The Alba Party proposed a doubling this coming year of the winter fuel payment offering 1 million Scottish pensioners, and households with severely disabled children, increased payments of between £100 and £300 to help with heating as a starting point. Alba also proposes a public share in all of the offshore wind licenses issued in Scottish waters, the formation of a public energy
company so that Scots can have access to clean, green and affordable electricity.

The SNP promised a publicly owned energy company using Scotland’s vast energy resources to be sold on at cost to the people of Scotland.

SNP members were enthusiastic, the public were enthusiastic, however this policy then became a different policy where efforts were being “refocused” on a public energy agency. The Scottish SNP Government said the agency would “coordinate and accelerate” the delivery of heat and energy efficiency work as well as “informing and educating” the public on required changes. If that wasn’t bad enough, we then had the great renewable swindle where our renewables were sold for £700 million whereas New York City made $4.26 BILLION DOLLARS from just 6 licenses. In relation to the Scottish auction the respected think tank Common Weal says it is “arguably the greatest economic failure of the last decade”. So basically, SNP energy policy is to continue to sell off Scotland’s natural resources to the same companies who were able to steal it in the 70’s while the taxation revenue will continue to flow into our colonising Westminster Government coffers as Scots get advice, yeah that will ward off the cold and high bills this winter.

Seems the Welsh Labour Government, Labour of all parties, have grasped the metal and have taken action, they are looking out for their people. Whereas, appearing before a parliamentary enquiry into Scottish energy Dr Keith Baker, a researcher in fuel poverty and energy policy at Glasgow Caledonian University said: “We have now reached the point where the Scottish Government has had little choice but to licence a significant chunk of some of our most valuable renewable energy assets to a group of multinational companies, none of whom have any real interest in supporting Scotland’s development as an equitable and independent countries, and with two of the top beneficiaries having abysmal records on human rights and climate change,” he said.“If the Scottish Government had listened particularly regarding the need for an asset-owning public energy company and the development of a domestic renewable energy manufacturing sector, we would now be in a position to justifiably claim that the sell off would bring significant and demonstrable economic and social benefits to Scotland.  

Wow, that takes a serious level of skill to be as incompetent and stupid on energy policy while allowing your country to be ripped off and stolen from not once, but twice. Don’t believe me look at the evidence for yourselves, listen to Phil Boswell on various Through a Scottish Prism shows, open your minds, your eyes, and your ears.

MACASKILL SLAMS ROBBERY OF SCOTLAND’S ENERGY BOUNTY WHILE HALF OF SCOTS FACE FUEL POVERTY THIS WINTER

 

So, while the SNP have lied and taken an effective role in what can only be classed as the continued theft of Scotland’s resources only ALBA stands with and for Scotland by offering credible and costed solutions to tackle child and family poverty and to tackle the “Cost of Living crisis”.

You can join the Alba Party here